I am teaching Contemporary Missions at our seminary, and as I am doing so, I am realizing there are many things changing rapidly that means I probably need to (finally) move on from Stan Guthrie's book "Missions in the Third Millenium" as required reading. Good book, but the class is CONTEMPORARY issues rather than TWENTY …
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In Search of Missions’ Flexible Boundaries
So what constitutes "missions"? This is a continuing argument between me and myself. I am working on a book on Mission Theology. One of the many aspects of Mission Theology has to do with what are the boundary lines of what we call "missions." Some might see this as an irrelevant concern... or perhaps just …
The Problem with Prophets… a Missiological Look
The term prophet is used in different ways by different people. Technically, a prophet is simply someone who gives the message of God... outside of the local church hierarchy. But it is commonly used by people as someone who "gives new and authoritative revelation to the people." While I don't care for this definition (neither …
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An ‘Introduction to Missions’ Book… hopefully.
Been trying to write an Introductory book for Christian missions. I suppose I should be working on it right now. I have written some short books before. I did one on medical missions (based on my dissertation)... pretty good, but short. I did one on the use of narrative in missions (a bit rough and …
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Some Thoughts on Culture, Communication, and Missions. Part 4
Taking the ideas of Part 1 through 3 further (see links below), I would like to extend it to Incarnational Missions. See the figure below (Figure 6) Figure 6. Incarnational Missions Modification In this case N, S, and C stay the same (natural world, society, and culture respectively). P again is the people group in …
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The Power of Weakness: Part 3
In the previous posts I have developed four categories of missions based on relation to violence and power. Of course the categories are dependent on how the terms are defined. For the purpose of the categories, violence has to do with acts that may be violent in a classic sense, but may also include methods …
On the Theme “Walking With” : A Missions Theology. Part 6
Do You See Yonder Wicket-Gate The Pilgrim's Progress Macgregor PubJack 1907 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This last section looks at Missions from the standpoint of Missions practice. As such, it is not, strictly speaking, drawn from the theme "Walking With." Rather it is dialogue between practice and principle. I believe that the basic principles flow …
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“What is the Impact of Globalism on Contemporary Christian Mission?”
Occasionally, I contribute to Answers.com. When I do, it is because I am really bored. This is one of my better answers I guess (although reading it, I probably should clean up the grammar sometime. Link and answer below: Question: What is the Impact of Globalization on the Contemporary Christian Mission? A. The "Southern Shift" …
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Top 10 Posts in 2011
Since 2012 starts in a couple of days, I figured I would list the top 10 posts from this year. I hope that you have found God's joy in turbulent 2011, and pray that you will find God's peace and direction in 2012. -Bob and Celia Munson #10 Fallacies and Questions Surrounding Redemptive Analogy. Redemptive …
Contemporary Issues in Missions
Here is a presentation I did a couple of years ago that looks at a lot of different issues in Christian Missions today. It is part of a 3-hour presentation, so each topic is handled pretty briefly. However, hopefully it still gives some food for thought. <div style="width:425px" id="__ss_10446944"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bmunson3/contemporary-issues-in-missions-1" title="Contemporary …